How to Plant and Care for Strawberries + The BEST Tasting Variety!

Learn how to plant and care for strawberries- from their preferred soil to tips on fertilizer (including which common advice to avoid) to proper planting depth. Plus- discover the best tasting strawberry variety around!

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Some tips on the planting and care of bare root strawberries:
*Soak the roots overnight prior to planting
*Strawberries prefer soil with excellent drainage, plenty of organic matter and a slightly acidic pH ( (5.5-6.5)
*Plant in full sun for best fruiting
*Fertilize at the proper time, and do not over-fertilize
*Pinch off blooms that occur during the season of planting; for everbearing varieties continue to pinch off blooms till approx. August
*Use mulch to keep beds weed-free
See even more tips in the video!

00:00 My favorite strawberry variety for flavor-- Charlotte!
01:29 Soil
02:33 Handling bareroot strawberry plants
02:29 Planting strawberries
04:31 Fertilizing strawberries
05:43 Watering strawberries
06:21 Mulching strawberries
07:20 Follow-up care

[ArkansasWoodcutter]

Very nice strawberry information. Packed with info. I would feel super confident in planting and growing berries. Well done!

[lukawskipaul]

Because of this video, I bought the Charlotte variety and planted them earlier in the spring. I pinched off all the blooms until August. I am now getting a giant bloom of berries and tried a few. WOW what a taste! There were no lies spoken in this video. The Charlotte berries are by far my favorite. They grow very well in the 5B climate. They also send out TONS of runners so if you want to share plants or fill out a patch quickly, these are a great variety to go with. Thank you for the video and all the information! It was incredibly useful and greatly appreciated.

[erinkendallbraun]

Wow, that is a gorgeous strawberry patch!

[ZingsVideos]

Confirmed. Charlotte are the sweetest strawberries I've ever tasted and the smell is a great bonus.

[niceysing]

I love how detailed you were explaining the care of strawberry plant. What's the best way to soak the roots overnight?

[addysbeeandgarden]

I just tasted my first Mara. That tiny little flavor bomb did not disappoint. My favorite smoothie is strawberry, pineapple, banana. It pretty much tasted exactly like that.

[PopeyeModesto]

Awesome video. I just transplanted into 41 pots, and some tubs, over 200 strawberry plants into fox farms strawberry fields soil and I'm using Alaska fish fertilizer with guano and I'm using morebloom. Fat strawberries. Looks like you know what you are doing! Happy planting!

[ke]

Noooo! I told myself that I would not buy anymore varieties of strawberries but now I’ll need to get some Charlottes. I just found your channel and am impressed with all the info. Thanks!

[annebird]

I got some Charlotte strawberrys this year based off your recomendation and they are great! Still small cause i only planted them in the spring, looking forward to biggger juicier ones next year but the flavor is great!! Layers of flavor i didnt expect and an after taste that stayed in your mouth for a minute afterwards.

[ludlowfalls]

Nice! I recently purchased a couple of strawberry plants to put in the raised bed i made for blueberries. Will mulch with pine straw.

[geoffoutdoors]

Hey Ohio here..just planted some Brunswick strawberries and looking around for tips on growing. Thanks for sharing

[capeflatterytrail]

Is Gurney's/Gardens Alive the only place that sells this variety? I am tempted to try it. Last year, we grew Quinault, Tristar, Mara des Bois, Seascape, and Albion, and everyone loved Tristar the best. There's even an article on "the plight of the Tristars" that quotes a number of French chefs who like them even better than Mara. This year, I think we will also get some Marshall strawberries, which are supposed to be a great heirloom.

[PopleBackyardFarm]

yum I love strawberries- great information. We need to redo our strawberry patch

[nicolasbertin]

Hi Jenna, I've been using pine bark/needles for over 3 years all over my garden, it's a great product. However, contrary to popular belief, it does not acidify the soil at all. My pH, measured every year, has stayed at 8.0-8.2 depending on the area of the garden (heavy alcaline soil). I wished it were more acidic, but it isn't. Life soil will degrade pine mulch, and bring it back up somehow to a pH of around 6.5, which is what pH usually is in that rich top soil (humus layer). But the acidity in pine forests isn't really due to the needles/bark, and that acidification takes centuries. There are some pine forests with neutral soil by the way. If you want to help plants who need acidity, you can have legumes all over. The vicinity of small legume roots is an area with an acidic pH, and it's been studied that other plants who need that acidity will bring their roots closer to those of legumes to grow better. But I have to say I don't really need that method: with organic matter, pretty much everything grows in an alcaline soil. I see people adding tons of weird stuff in their soil to make it acidic, thinking they'll have better yields with tomatoes or potatoes, but it's useless. That may help you grow heather, acacias, blueberries or eucalypts, but it's not needed for vegetables.

[healthstyleelizonroy]

Thanks a lot I am from Philippines just starting to plant I hope I will be successful.

[healthstyleelizonroy]

Wow I am too excited to have my new young strawberry 🍓 my first time to plant and still living, now from your information I just learned a lot of ideas on how to care .

[ttb]

Great tip about Charlottes. Something that confuses me is some commercial growers plant new plants each year, so clearly they don’t remove blossoms on new plants, or they’d never have a harvest. But each plant also apparently has a productive live span of a few years. I am anxious to learn how the productivity changes over a single plants lifetime, and what a good harvest is from a single plant.

Anybody have experience to share?

[careyareaparanormalenergyr]

Hi Jenna! We have the same soil you do, here in northwest Ohio, so opted to use a graduated grow tub to plant our strawberries this year. We chose Alba, which are doing well and taste/ look great. But now you know we must try Charlotte next spring. Thanks for mulching tip! Using straw, but we have lots of pine needles and will give it a go. ~Sylvia

[pgjc]

great info. Thanks for the video. I love strawberries. I am going to give these a try now.

[maidenmopar]

Hello these look great! I see this video is 3 years ago, I'm just wondering how it panned out with this variety? I'm in zone 5B Indiana